Cassandra Troyan is a writer and researcher whose work explores the intersections of gendered violence, radical histories of resistance, sex work, and capital. The 87 Press reading, London, 13th March, The Capilano Review. Social Text. Mask Magazine. Dennis Cooper's Blog. Name the dead. Mourn the dead. Defend the dead. Sociality does not end at death.
To put it bluntly, this book makes me want to fuck shit up. Cassandra Troyan's weaving together some of the understated fantasies and realities of sex work is like an emotional rollercoaster in a horror-themed park.
Without flattening into a single story, their described dreams of vengeance, the stakes of survival, tasting financial freedom, finding beauty and safety in solidarity, and navigating fears of harm illustrate a complicated interiority of gender and labor. Theirs is an ode to sex working renegades, a memorial to all those rendered disposable and violable, an indictment of capitalism's theft of time and labor. To read their searing poetry with honesty is to clearly come to understand why Aileen Wuornos was never the villain she was deliberately made out to be, how many of us are not so different.
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